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Old 12-12-2017, 11:52 AM   #13 (permalink)
Isaac Zackary
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And the results are in, and they are.

......Drum Roll!!........

A 100% improvement!

So I did a test this morning. Normally I'll go warm the house up from 40*F to 50*F. This has been taking approximately 1 whole hour, maybe even a bit longer. The outside temperature has been around 0*F, the same today so no variables have changed.

Well today I turned up the thermostat I took the cover off and then momentarily turned off the power (no need to get shocked) and took the spade connector off that goes from the thermo switch to the fan and hooked it directly to an empty terminal on the power block so that the fan would stay on. 30 minutes later the thermometer read 50*F!

So with the fan turning on and off it takes 60 minutes to raise the temperature 10 degrees. But with the fan on permanently it only takes 30 minutes! So I just used half the fuel to do the same thing!
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